Sentences with phrase «of people displaced»

However, I purposely avoided discussing the number of people displaced as a mark of the size of the flood because population increases make it a biased indicator.

TEPCO, the owner of the Fukushima plant, estimates that compensation costs for the tens of thousands of people displaced by the accident in Japan will exceed $ 50 billion and that it will cost about $ 20 billion to decommission the plant.

The American Red Cross provided money and shelter to the dozens of people displaced from their homes after a fire Tuesday at River Reach Apartments.

See the faces of people displaced by Hurricane Sandy as they find moments of joy with their pets to relieve the sadness of their many losses.

It is widely agreed that the vast majority of people displaced by disasters are internally displaced (defined by the 1998

It is widely agreed that the vast majority of people displaced by disasters are internally displaced (defined by the 1998 Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement), which is the focus of displacement situations highlighted by the Global Estimates report.

Houston Food Bank The Houston Food Bank provides hot meals to the thousands of people displaced and in shelters.

• Also, estimates of the number of people displaced in the partition of British India in 1947 range from 10...

Legros helped organise the first emergency use of the vaccine last year, in four camps of people displaced by fighting in South Sudan.

Houston is underwater, with tens of thousands of people displaced from their homes, many more waiting to be rescued and an uncountable number of lives changed forever.

However, the total number of people displaced by the storm is still unknown, as at least 65 centres and numerous unofficial displacement sites and host family locations have yet to be assessed.

Natria's name was on a list compiled by FEMA of people displaced when Hurricane Irma barreled through central Florida in September.

The good news: Aid workers have the lessons of Katrina to fall back on as they try to help the thousands of people displaced by this storm.

Not exact matches

Judging by some of the comments the Times has received on its Displaced project so far, a number of people were touched by the feature in a way they likely wouldn't have been by a traditional photo series in the printed newspaper.

This is exactly the kind of thing that people sounded the alarm about in recent years — that robots are going to displace human workers.

Some 25,000 buildings perished in the fires, 20,000 people were displaced, and 90 % of San Francisco was destroyed.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

«I felt responsible when kids were being shot by snipers, when millions of people were being displaced,» he said.

In the wake of a historic and deadly hurricane season, an app called Zello Walkie Talkie has become the communication tool of choice for both people working to help in cleanup and first responder efforts, such as the Cajun Navy in Houston, and those affected and displaced by these storms.

He told The New York Times recently, «My assumption is this technology will eventually displace a lot of people in those warehouses.»

At least 363 people perished, and more than 2 million people were displaced as a result of these floods which received minimal media coverage globally.

As the article says, many more people will lose their jobs because of this protectionist garbage... why not re-employ the people who are displaced when Arrium goes under instead of three times as many at other companies?

While governments struggle with the best way to accommodate the massive influx of displaced people, business owners are also pitching in.

We must remain committed to education, retraining, and help for displaced workers... We need to help displaced workers make ends meet between jobs and move people quickly on to the next opportunity... [C] ommunity colleges do a great job of providing the right skills to workers and the right workers for firms.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

About 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, most of them troops fighting Hezbollah, were killed in the 2006 war, which displaced a million people in Lebanon and up to 500,000 in Israel.

«I take the mindset of we owe it to society as a whole to retrain people whose jobs we displace but if we can make them happier and have a better job and put their efforts, their talents, to better use, that's still a net win.»

Up to 12 million people could be displaced by the storm, which is packing winds of over 130 mph and expected to cause an 11 - foot surge in sea levels, according to the India Meteorological Department.

«There are a lot of displaced Minneapolis people and Midwesterners in New York City who have an incredible emotional connection to the brand,» Oberlander said.

These technological innovations are an opportunity to do that but an opportunity that comes with a side that needs to be carefully managed by policy - makers, by government like you, where you need to think about the transition period of the people that are working and that are displaced and how you manage that.

Further, after the emergency has passed, these communities are often displaced or left out of rebuilding initiatives as developers and corporations use the destruction as an opening for permanent displacement of the people who live there and launch rebuilding initiatives aimed at turning a profit and privatizing public services.

Displaced workers are defined as persons 20 years of age and older who lost or left jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished.

Hurricane Harvey, Maria, and Irma have swept through towns, big and small, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people across multiple states.

Harvey, which came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, has killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than 1 million and damaged some 200,000 homes in a path of destruction stretching for more than 300 miles.

I am proud that our union has added its voice to those of so many other Canadians who want to help, moved by the human plight of so many millions of displaced people.

America's hospitals were beset by an unusual number of calamities in 2017: Fires raged in Northern and Southern California; hurricanes displaced thousands in Houston, Florida and Puerto Rico; the deadliest mass shooting in modern history killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others in Las Vegas; and an attack at a Bronx hospital in which a doctor turned a gun on his former colleagues, killing one and injuring six.

The council at the centre of the fire disaster says it will do its best to re-house families affected by the deadly fire in the borough but admits some could end up elsewhere in London - as hundreds of people have been left displaced.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

In a joint statement, the Foreign and Interior Ministers said: «We are providing aid to displaced people fleeing from the threats of Islamic State and who have sought refuge in Kurdistan.

At the end of 2013 — even before the Iraq crisis forced an estimated 1.8 million Iraqis from their homes — around 51.2 million people worldwide had been forcibly displaced due to «persecution, conflict, generalised violence or human rights violations», according to the UN News Centre.

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in that time, more than 4.7 million people have fled violence in the country and 6.6 million more have been internally displaced.

But one person isn't waiting another minute to help rescue the spirits of the men and women stuck at the Houston convention center that's taking on displaced people.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

The annual report released today reveals that most of the 13 million people displaced are from seven nations: Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Central African Republic (CAR), Eritrea, Burma, and Afghanistan.

Now home to more than one million refugees — more than one - third of its population — Lebanon has taken the longest to resettle displaced people, says Soerens.

Yobel Market sells all sorts of fairly - traded, sustainably - created wares from around the world to help empower people who have been exploited, displaced and impoverished.

The commission's top recommendation to address the surge in displaced people is that the US government should raise the ceiling on the number of refugees resettled from 70,000 to at least 100,000, with «additional reserves» for the Middle East.

Indeed, it is a counterliturgy, because it affirms a kind of life remote from the reality of these displaced people.

Gordon described the current refugee crisis as the worst yet and one that will get worse for 65 million displaced people due to impacts of climate change and unresolved conflict.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is also chair of Christian Aid, said: «This year we have seen extreme weather displacing millions of people in South Asia and bringing death and destruction in the Caribbean and the United States.